Under the Skin

Palle is a small town in northern Peru. Percy Corso runs the police station there. He is shy and uneasy. He tries to keep away from violence. Then killings begin in the town. The dead are young people. The killings echo an old practice. The practice belongs to Moche culture. Corso has to run the investigation. A forensic doctor named Marina works with him. So does an academic who studies the Moche. Something grows between Corso and Marina. That closeness puts him under strain. So does what develops between him and the killer. The film won best director at San Sebastián in 1996. José Luis Ruiz and Ana Risueño appear in the hundred and twelve minute film, a German, Peruvian and Spanish production Francisco J. Lombardi finished in 1996.